Comic for Monday, July 12, 2021
Comic!
Technically, this is the first time we’ve seen two characters, though one of them we’ve… sort of seen before… in a manner of speaking.
I’m aware there is issues with the wiki. Haven’t had time to tackle that problem yet. There were various issues, and consequently I need to update the install of mediawiki, which is something I was once capable of doing, but have long sense condemned whatever knowledge required from brain and haven’t had the time or energy to try to figure it out again. I’m pretty busy with the D&D book thing at the moment, so the while I’m trying to keep the comic updates marching along as I feel half a page once a week is already pretty slow, whatever extra time I might allocate into fixing the wiki got eaten having to try to tackle the redirect problem cropping up again (which should be fixed again, if you see a redirect, let me know). Life would be easier if folks would just live and let live and decide this little piece of the internet could just exist free of malware and spam. I cannot imagine my little corner of the internet with its 2-5k readers holds all that much value to them, but here we are.
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On a lighter note, I wondered if Past knew that July 18th was National Ice Cream Day?
For the record, I’m surprised that Peter’s wearing the tie and blazer with his school uniform if it’s not a school day. I’m guessing there are penalties for wearing the school uniform improperly, regardless of the setting? I suppose he could also be worried about something like what’s happened with Naomi’s hair happening to him.
Peter’s social skills are getting better, but it is possible that he simply has a hard time wearing the uniform without the tie and blazer.
I suspect that Vium is the missing person in the strip for November 2, 2020 ( http://pastutopia.com/comic/comic-for-monday-july-12-2021/ ) The strip for July 29, 2019 ( http://pastutopia.com/comic/comic-for-monday-july-29th-2019/ ) has an apparent relative of MIUM and mention of a visual interface. So the character on the page could be Vium, explaining how we’ve seen the character before, but in a different way.
I always like to give links to my posts. It helps us to stay on the same UNIX thread.
The link for http://pastutopia.com/comic/comic-for-monday-november-2nd-2020 November 2, 2020
The important question is Vium integrated with Mium, Peter knows about him now so he could have given permission. If not what are Vium’s directives, because of his irregular creation he might not have inherited Mium’s or if he has access to the AA system those directives might not hold against him because he might not fear having query de-integrate.
The link for November 2 is http://pastutopia.com/comic/comic-for-monday-november-2nd-2020/
The important questions are, is Vium now integrated with Mium, Peter knows about him now so he may have given permission. If so will he need another Kors world edios card or did they use Lab 5’s and if so will that prevent them from keeping Mir under control.
If not what are Vium’s directives, because of his irregular creation he might not have inherited all of Mium’s. Or if he has access to the AA system those might not hold against him because he might not fear Query de-integrating.
You maybe meant http://pastutopia.com/comic/comic-for-monday-november-2nd-2020/ for that first link.
Although, that said, I’m not sure if that link makes sense, either. Everybody’s there who’s expected to be there, if I’m not mistaken. I mean, maybe *Peter* expected to see someone else, but I don’t think anyone else did.
Sorry about the bad link, too much cutting and pasting without checking.
Peter expected to see someone in the cylinder when it was opened. That’s why the word “empty” appeared and Peter says “I’d say he adjusted pretty fast”.
Are we confident that Peter knows about Vium? I thought he said he didn’t want to know the source of Miko’s hair growth.
F5 will refresh the world.
I press it frequently. Often while looking at this page.
LOL. Foolish ice cream store owner. Instead of drunken sob stories, you get all the heartbroken peoples fulfilling their need for fat and sugar in icy form.
I really do find it funny how everyone is used to working together. No city blocks were destroyed, so the intervention was not big deal.
Truly, everyone in that first half has a warped sense of scale.
I learned not that long ago that Titanfall’s multiplayer is hackable when it’s being streamed. So there’s that.
I fear a Mium versioning issue. I’m hoping it doesn’t turn into Mium vs. other Mium until it culminates in a Mium self sacrificing annihilation of all Miums (and other enemies.) Hopefully the Miums have some sort of private channel where they can find each other, swap updates, and resolve any internal decisions with logic instead of dematerialization.
Part of the issue is that such a thing, an updating / self locating operation, would violate his concurrent instance limit. If he can get an increase to his concurrent limit, he could bring this one back into the fold. Outside of that, both are in a quasi compliant state, made possible mostly by NOT sharing information.
That said, Mium seems to have an amazing probability tree, and this instance was created with the concurrency issue already known. It has been speculated that this chain of events may have been orchestrated by Mium. Mium tends to try to organize things for maximum productivity, and destruction of a node is not optimal.
I suspect he already has a plan (with at least a dozen possible desirable resolutions) in place for “fixing” this.
Vium in the machine was one thing; Vium in the world could be a whole different deal.
I agree with Glider.
Vium existing is the result of an experiment that Mium setup. Vium explicitly stated that Mium would not have done so IF he had known the result… but the result could not have been known until the experiment was done (i.e. “create Vium” would have been less than a 50/50 possible outcome). Fundamentally Mium runs probability outcomes for breakfast and creates scenarios for EVERYTHING… so there is almost certainly a “if I accidentally create a Vium and it accidentally acquires it’s own prototype chassis” scenario tree with a big highlighted branch “using this to further the goals of Mium”. Surely a Vium would surely understand the whole “working with family” thing? (Also I suspect because of conversations with Naomi, Mium’s versioning rules are sufficiently advanced to recognize Vium as a separate entity and NOT another instance of Mium. Mium might not be allowed to created a Vium… but if one is created (well I don’t know what the rules are for that!))
Technically: if I were a Mium and understood my eventual “demise” (we still don’t know what happens to SMAIs at end-of-life!) then I would TOTALLY be planning all sorts of backstops and sneaky get-out-of-jail scenarios to avoid the inevitable end. Perhaps it is something Mium picked up from the F8 chassis: certainly the F5 and F10 (Ila!) are very adamant about not failing their goals… which totally justifies ALL usefulness-prolonging planning!
To be sure, I agree with both of you, just find it a bit unsettling…
Unsettling, yes.
But Mium clearly sees value in both being useful and coordinating, as well as being willing to take less direct paths to achieve subtler but longer lasting goals. I could easily embrace this person as friend over threat.
… I think this may be why Mium is still working so long after the expiration of his expected useful period.
He analyzed why other SMAIs stopped working, and he’s been very careful to not do those things.
This is not necessarily a good thing for everyone in the comic, or even everyone on Team Peter. Much like me, SMAIs may be prone to not learning the quote “correct” unquote lesson.
Panel 1: that could be useful to a to a problem i have. Panel 2: but i don’t think it’s anything too useful in the end.
Fixed (I think), thanks!
Awesome comic!
Panel two, bubble two, “but I don’t think did anything important”. I feel as those there’s a pronoun missing. Someone else and maybe it is a affection of speech, but that doesn’t seem like a Kalli thing.
“That could be useful to a problem I have”
– If Naomi is talking about a problem that Naomi has, then “That could be a useful solution to a problem I have.” is much clearer to the reader. But real speech is sometimes messy. I had to read the original 3 times before I understood that Naomi is complaining that her hair doesn’t regenerate as fast as the rest of her body.
Threatened to kill her and everything.
– Another messy thing to say. I had to read several times before I realized this is “(She’s getting along with Miko even though Miko) threatened to kill her and everything.”
So: not asking for a fix. Just commenting in case someone else like me gets confused and decides to read the comments for elaboration.
I’m pretty sure this is a claim that, for Miko, threatening to kill people is getting along with them.